(December 24, 2018 at 8:37 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote:Quote:El-ohim. It's the name associated with God as being the Creator.
Sometimes you can have something similar in multiple cultures and it means the same thing to them respectively.
Anyway, Merry Christmas.
Nope.
Yahweh came from the Babylonian pantheon.
El Elyon was the chief Babylonian deity. Yahweh was one of his many sons.
The Elohim was the council of gods, (which is why the word in Genesis is translated "us" as in "Let *us* make man in our image" ... it's plural.
Countless writings over the centuries have discussed this "us" and what it means.
Read "The Origins of Satan" ... Dr. Elaine Pagels, Princeton
It's not even close to being a question.
Take Comparative Mythology 101.
Many things in Genesis came from Babylon. The Judean priests wrote it in Exile, in Babylon.
Ezra brought it back with him, as described in Nehemiah.
Merry Christmas.
Tis your opinion dude. When you have a beginning to something, nothing else comes before it in its context. But to be fair, we would just go around in circles over which is first, so happy to agree to disagree.